.NET Tools

Despite being a plugin itself, ReSharper serves as an incredible platform for plugin creation. ReSharper’s development team uses the dependency injection approach to design every aspect of the product. That means that any component of ReSharper is like a building block that can be overridden with pl…

It’s that time, again! The software development industry at large starts the new year with a retrospective of the previous. Just like during our software development projects. We at JetBrains run the Developer Ecosystem Survey yearly to capture the zeitgeist of the development world. While the su…

Having a profiling tool integrated into your IDE is an asset no developer can discount the value of. The undeniable convenience of being able to screen your app for performance issues on the fly is why the dotTrace profiler comes integrated into Rider. With our latest EAP build, we’re expanding on t…

Do you work with Entity Framework Core? Would you like to manage entities right inside your IDE? Then you're in luck! JetBrains Rider helps you effectively manage everything you need in EF Core with ease. In just a few clicks you'll have produced the necessary EF Core boilerplate code that's necessa…

Concluding our series of posts on the AWS Toolkit for Rider, let's take a look at Cloud Debugging of ECS services! In case you missed the earlier posts, the AWS Toolkit is a free plugin for Rider that provides support for AWS, with credential and region management, creation, local debugging and d…

Let's continue our series on the new AWS Toolkit for Rider. As we saw last time, the AWS Toolkit is an open source plugin from AWS that makes it easier to work with .NET applications and AWS. It has several really useful features - credential and region management, AWS Lambda support and Cloud Debug…

We have good news for anyone wanting to create C# serverless applications! We’ve been working with Amazon Web Services and are very pleased to announce the availability of the AWS Toolkit for Rider, a free, open source plugin for Rider that will help you build, test and deploy serverless application…

Rider’s ecosystem has many plugins covering a multitude of categories, including really fun ones. We’ve highlighted several plugins on this blog previously, but none specifically for the “fun stuff” category - apart from maybe Power Mode II and Nyan Progress Bar but those mean serious business!…